The 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth

by David G. Thomson

Microsoft, Google and eBay did it. And in David G. Thomson’s Blueprint to a Billion, he will tell you how to turn billion-dollar ideas into billion-dollar businesses. Based on three years of in-depth research, Thomson provides an assessment of the success pattern common across a distinct group of 387 “Blueprint Companies” that went from an initial public offering since 1980 and achieved $1 billion in revenue. Rather than focusing on one unique company, Thomson focuses on a quantifiable,

Managing the Business Cycle for Competitive Advantage

by Peter Navarro

It’s not enough to understand the business cycle and the industry cycle. In The Well-Timed Strategy, Peter Navarro discusses today’s unprecedented level of macroeconomic turbulence – from oil price hikes to drought and disease. Whether an executive, a strategist or an investor, Navarro provides the tools to align every facet of business strategy, tactics and operations to reflect changing business conditions. Keeping in mind finance, supply chains, production, marketing, HR and more, th

Building Corporate Culture in the Connected Workplace

by Ray Bender, Peg Neuhauser, Kirk L. Stromberg

In the age of the Internet, many corporate cultures don’t match up with how people are required to work in the new economy. Here’s a road map for changing your company culture so it will help rather hinder your company’s transformation.

How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment

by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton

Developers of the Balanced Scorecard, Kaplan and Norton offer five principles to help companies transform this groundbreaking performance management tool into a tool for creating a strategy-driven performance management company.